BooK CoMPeTITIonS
Congratulations to our fi ve winners of David Demant’s A Story of Natural Numbers, courtesy of Teacher in asso- ciation with Black Dog Books. The win- ners are: Julia Savage from Methodist Ladies’ College, Melbourne; Tricia McNamara from Sacred Heart Primary School, Mildura, Victoria; Mark McKinnon from St John the Evangelist Catholic High School, Nowra, New South Wales; Richard Walker from Bor- den Primary School, Albany, Western Australia, and Joe Dannaoui from Ber- wick Primary School, Melbourne. For the record, David Demant has worked at Museum Victoria for 10100 years – 20 years in decimal.
Didn’t win? Don’t worry. You can win one of fi ve copies of Paula Shaw’s Seven Seasons in Aur ukun, r e v i e w e d this month on page 64, courtesy of Teacher in association with Allen
& Unwin.
Simply email [email protected] with
‘Book competition’ in the subject box and your answer to this question: where is Aurukun? Don’t forget to include your name, institution and postal address in the text box.
Alternatively, write to:
Book competition The Editor Teacher
Private Bag 55 Camberwell VIC 3124
with your answer to the question, plus your name, institution and postal address on the back of the envelope.
Competition ends 25 May, 2009.
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FAST FACTS
Percentage of 19-year olds who haveattained Year 12 or equivalent: 71 per cent.
Percentage from low socioeconomic back- grounds who have attained Year 12 or equivalent: 58 per cent.
Government target for percentage attain- ing Year 12 or equivalent by 2020: 90 per cent.
Percentage of 20- to 24-year olds who have attained Year 12 or Certifi cate III or higher: 82 per cent
Percentage of early schoolleavers in part- time work or not in work: 40 per cent – double the rate for Year 12 completers.
Percentage of 15 to 19-year olds in full- time education: 70 per cent.
Percentage in full-time work: 17 per cent.
Percentage not in full-time education or full-time work: 13 per cent.
Percentage of high achievers enrolled in university in their fi rst year after leav- ing school: 55 per cent
Percentage of low achievers enrolled in university in their fi rst year after leav- ing school: 7.8 per cent.
Source: How Young People are Faring 2008.
QuICK QuIZ
1. Are all young people digital natives?
2. Are students who bully at school likely to bully online?
3. What are Arthur Costa and Bena Kallick best known for in educational circles?
4. What does Schools 4 Schools do?
5. Who said ‘Australia’s Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard is youthful, articulate, capable and dangerously, stupendously ignorant on education matters’?
6. Could you expect your students to warm to you if you asked them to hold your cup of coffee?
7. Why doesn’t a queen ant have wings even though she had to take fl ight to establish a new colony?
8. People who had shorter sleep duration during childhood are more likely to be obese and have a higher body mass index than those who slept longer hours. True or false?
9. Can a school trade mark its name?
10. How ought one to respond to phrases like ‘cascading granularity from a high-altitude 360-degree platform’?
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